Overview
- In a WELT-TV interview, AfD co-leader Alice Weidel called Verfassungsschutz staff “schmierige Stasi spies” and mocked Thuringia’s agency head Stephan Kramer with personal jibes.
- Kramer denounced the comparison as a humiliation of Stasi victims, said the attacks aim to intimidate him and silence criticism, and reported experiencing subtle antisemitic abuse.
- Thuringia’s Interior Minister Georg Maier rejected Weidel’s wording as unacceptable and criticized her for normalizing a banned SA slogan in the same interview.
- CDU leader Carsten Linnemann said the AfD is radicalizing under Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, arguing Weidel is herself becoming a right‑extremist suspicion case after repeating the SA phrase.
- The federal agency’s move to classify the AfD as a confirmed right‑wing extremist endeavor remains paused pending court review, while its separate examination of the new youth group Generation Deutschland continues.